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"1154 Religion Quotes

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
Incompatible Religion Slavery
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Both Choose Evolution Faith
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Destiny Each Enabling Help
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Bible Go Heaven Heavens
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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
Against God Him Please
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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.

Confidence Creator Die Empowering
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

About Dealing God Knows
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Fatal Indifference Nothing Religion
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Art Creation Essentially Finished
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Always Defend God Grants
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Christians Citizens Good Good Citizens
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Christ Dry Eyes Feet
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Anything Anything Else Attachment Else
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

True Christianity False Importance
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

World Christ Died Individually
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

History Ineffective Largely Most
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

About Been Discover Discovery
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Attentive Being Courage God
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Done God Kinds People
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One man with courage is a majority.

Courage Majority Man One-Man
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Explanation Faith Necessary Possible
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Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

Accepts Believe Church Clearly
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Demands Disclosure Divine Human
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith Hand Hope Seen
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

Abundant Enjoy God Grace
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Afterwards Believing Evidence Full
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Because Christ Go He
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Ancient Church Deny Dissolve
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We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

Address Church Crowd Focus
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It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

Away Believe Christ Christians
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Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

Believe Christian Easy Every
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When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Around Budget Church Media
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When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

Believe Drive Dump Giving
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Preach Rid Sidetracked Stuff
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The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

God Knows Need Persuade
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It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Exciting Friendship God Grows
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Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Accepting Alone Christ Eternal
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If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Christian Die Enough Epitome
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Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Carried Free Soul Heaven
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A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Aid Create Holy Repent
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I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Apart Believe Certain Determination
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I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Distinguishing Fashionable Glory God
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Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Achievements Cloud Disappear Fast
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There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
Beyond Description God Gospel
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Anybody who brings tribalism into the church should either leave the church immediately or will soon die like Annanais and Sapphira.

Leave Brings Church Either
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No pastor has the church’s blessing to impose Yoruba songs as part of the church service in other parts of the country.

Impose Service Country Parts
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Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

English Find Like Look
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Absence Asylum Complexion Due
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Believe Consist Doing Duties
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